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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast Laurie Michael with

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Speaker 2: us inspirational Artist, which means she receives the ideas for

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Speaker 2: her artwork and writing in very powerful downloads are fully

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Speaker 2: informed ideas that she sees in her mind. She believes

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Speaker 2: these concepts are inspired from her higher self, universal consciousness, God,

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Speaker 2: and her spirit team. Laurie began receiving communications from the

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Speaker 2: other side back in twenty twelve when her soulmate Mark

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Speaker 2: passed away. Will tell you about that story, confirming her

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Speaker 2: belief that love never dies and in her book Signs

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Speaker 2: surround you. She hopes to her story that you will

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Speaker 2: understand her signs in a way that lets you recognize

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Speaker 2: signs from your loved ones as well. Laurie believes in

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Speaker 2: her life's purpose is to send positive energy to the world. Laurie,

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Speaker 2: the world needs your energy. Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 3: Hi, George, thank you so much. Thanks for having me

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Speaker 3: and I want to thank you for what you're doing

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Speaker 3: to help raise a vibration of the collective conscious.

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Speaker 2: It is my pleasure. Indeed, you have an incredible story

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Speaker 2: with Mark Abrahamian, who was the lead guitarist for the

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Speaker 2: what was the Jefferson Starship, but it was the Starship

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Speaker 2: when he was doing it. He died of a heart

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Speaker 2: attack at forty six, right after a concert in Nebraska.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about this.

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Speaker 3: So my meeting with Mark was really unusual because he

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Speaker 3: was doing a concert with thirty eight Special and Starship

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Speaker 3: on a weekend that I was actually supposed to be

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Speaker 3: at a family readingion two states away, but because the

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Speaker 3: song Miracles is my all time favorite song, I changed

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Speaker 3: all of our plans. We had my daughter's birthday party

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Speaker 3: and I found myself at a thirty eight Special concert

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Speaker 3: and my son had just started playing guitar, he was

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Speaker 3: about ten years old, and he pulled out a guitar

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Speaker 3: pick and asked if we could find a guitarist to

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Speaker 3: he gave us backstage passes for that night for thirty

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Speaker 3: eight Special, which also included backstage passes the next day

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Speaker 3: for Starship and since I knew for sure we were

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Speaker 3: going to meet the band. I looked up everybody bio

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Speaker 3: and I discovered that Mark had been a guitar teacher,

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Speaker 3: to ask him some questions for my brand new guitar

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Speaker 3: playing son. And so that's exactly what happened. And when

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Speaker 3: I connected with Mark, it was a magnetic connection immediately,

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Speaker 3: and he told me that I could contact him and

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Speaker 3: And so I went home and announced to everybody that

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Speaker 3: I'm good at building relationships and I'm going to start

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Speaker 3: when he came back to town, my son could get a

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Speaker 3: guitar lesson from a real, live rock star. And that

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Speaker 3: began what was very innocent conversations between the two of us,

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Speaker 3: we had this magnetic connection that was just ineffable. I

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Speaker 3: feel like sometimes when you meet somebody, you feel like

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Speaker 3: we had. So we were on and off for a while,

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Speaker 3: and then things just didn't work out for us to

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Speaker 3: be together. At that time. He couldn't move to me,

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Speaker 2: How did you find out? How did you hear that

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Speaker 3: So one day I was walking at my ponds and

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Speaker 3: I made a very concerted effort not to follow his

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Speaker 3: And this is back in twenty twelve, so you know,

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Speaker 3: the message that he had died, But I feel like

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Speaker 3: he was letting me know, even though we hadn't been

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Speaker 2: Does he continue to stay in touch with you from

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Speaker 3: Lord? Yes. So he died in twenty twelve, so it's

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Speaker 3: been eleven years. I've received hundreds of signs from him,

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Speaker 3: Well? Because we were so connected in music while he

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Speaker 3: I wanted to believe that it was a sign from him.

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Speaker 3: And because it was so significant, you know, you think

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Speaker 2: At this point, Lorie, almost twelve years later, what would

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that when our loved ones die, they

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Speaker 3: love us. They're absolutely connected to us. Any thought you've

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Speaker 3: people will find feathers or coins. Some people will here's

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Speaker 3: think what this did for me is it deepened the

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Speaker 3: have stories you can read about in your death experiences

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Speaker 3: But it's something completely different when it happens to you,

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Speaker 2: Those who are skeptical about the story or about the

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Speaker 3: To them, Well, I don't think it's for me to

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Speaker 2: Does he come to you in your dreams as well?

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Speaker 3: So he has actually come to me only twice in

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Speaker 2: Were there other signs, Glorie, that convinces you about what

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Speaker 2: Of all the signs that Mark has sent you, which

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Speaker 3: Goodness, he has sent me so many, I think the one.

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Speaker 3: And we stopped behind the car in front of us,

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Speaker 2: Now. Were you're sharing some of these with your husband

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Speaker 3: So I was. I was. I had met Mark when

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